$4 Mr. C. P. Brown's Telugu SpelU, 



a pit on the north side of the town and spread a swallow* 

 wort leaf under it. Adore it with lamps, frankincense and 

 a wave-offering, and sacrifice a cock. Fold it up in a leaf 

 and bury it. This will effect your object. The charm must 

 be repeated twenty-four times. 



[Here follows a spell written in Sanskrit, Telugu and 

 Hindustani mingled. It is incomplete as well as erroneous 

 and is scarcely intelligible.] 



" Vijaya Ram ! Bismilla Rahiman keheki bandu, chelmen 

 gaddu," take seven lakhs of land [sic in orig.], nine lakhs 

 of land' ten la*khs of land. R3ma Sanyasi is my Teacher ! 



" Salutation to Brahma and my teacher ! son of Qiva, Rud- 

 ra's vehicle, noble Hanuman, Sanjfva Raya, 0 Mother Arya- 

 ns, [mother of the monkey Hanuman.] I implore thee by 

 the feet of thy mother, O Hanuman, to aid me. Hari om, 

 nijayar." 



Second Document. 



[This is principally written in ancient Sanskrit verse, 

 being an extract from the Sahara Chinta'mani, a copy of 

 which in my possession (vol. 2 p. 222) has enabled me to 

 decipher some passages otherwise unintelligible on account 

 of the ignorance of the transcriber.] 



Sahara Chinta'mani or Code of Destructive Magic. 



The art of logic is chiefly studied in the North, and the 

 religious rites (karmam) in the South : but the art of Magic 

 came from the east and conjuring from Malay alam. 



" Aum ! hrim ! hrom, hail, 0 Goddess of Malayala, who 

 possesses t us in a moment ! come, come I" On a Sunday fa ) let 

 the conjurer obtain the corpse of a girl, and at night let him 

 place it at the foot of a tree : let him place it on the altar. 

 Then let him use the abovesaid spells, one hundred times 



(a) It will be remembered that the body was found in the pagoda on 

 a Sunday. 



